Table utensil.



No. 843,953. PATENTED FEB. 12, 1907.

G. LARAMY. TABLE UTENSIL;

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 29, 1906.

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GEORGE LARAMY, or ENFIELD, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

TABLE UTENSIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 12, 1907.

' Application filed March 29, 1906. Serial No. 808,798.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, G ORGE LARAMY, a citizen of the United States, risiding at Enfield, in the count of Grafton and State of ave invented a new and useful Table Utensil, of which the" following is a specification.

This invention relates to utensils for table use; and its object is to provide a combined knife, spoon, and fork all formed in a single piece and any of which can be conveniently utilized, thereby rendering the device especially adapted for use by persons with one arm.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts,

which will be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings is shown the preferred form of the invention.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section.

Referring to the figures by numerals of reference, 1 is a spoon-bowl formed at one end of a handle 2 in the usual manner, and one side edge of the bowl is flanged, as at 3, to form a straight edge 4. This edge may be formed of the same material as'the bowl'or, if preferred, can consist of a steel blade inserted into the flange and welded or otherwise fastened in place. Fork-tines 5 extend from the end ortion of the-bowl; but the combined wi th of the bases of these tines is less than the width of the bowl, so that they will not hinder or prevent the curved edge 6 of the bowl being placed in the mouth or prevent the edge 4-from cutting into an object.

It will be noted that the end portion of the bowl is reinforced by a straight flat portion 5, from which the tines 5 extend, and that the crotches formed between the tines are rounded. By constructing the device in this manner it becomes im ossible for food to become wedged withint e crotches', and, moreover, the connection between the tines and the bowl is rendered more secure.

,The device illustrated in the drawings is intended to be held inthe left hand, so that the edge 6 can be placed in the mouth. The

arrangement of the edges 4 and 6 will be re-- versed where the spoon is to be graspedin the right hand. a

What is claimed is An article of the class described com rising an oval spoon-bowl having a hand eat one end, a straight enlargement on one side of the bowl and having an annular recess extending longitudinally in the outer edge thereof, a cutting-blade inserted and secured within said recess, an enlargement at one end of the bowl and merging into said enlarge ment at the side of the bowl, said end enlargement having a straight edge extending from side to side, and tines extending from the straight edge and of uniform length, the

crotches between the tines being rounded.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE LARAMY.

Witnesses:

EUGENE H. KING, J CARRIE KING. 

